Ignorance

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Quotes regarding Ignorance.

• "Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise" ~ Thomas Gray

• "A truly refined mind will seem to be ignorant of the existence of anything that is not perfectly proper, placid, and pleasant." ~ Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

• "An ignorant man is always a slave." ~ Anonymous

• "Believe it or not, there is something of a far more evil than ignorance-indifference." ~ Anonymous

• "Deliberately breaking rules is fine; ignoring them is not -- ignorance is bad." ~ Anonymous

• "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square." ~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

• "If ignorance is bliss, you must be the happiest man alive." ~ Anonymous

• "If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face." ~ Zack de la Rocha

• "...ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities." ~ George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

• "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." ~ Thomas Jefferson

• "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" ~ George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

• "Ignorance is the parent of fear." ~ Herman Melville, Moby Dick

• "Lack of knowledge is darker than night." ~ Anonymous

• "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!" ~ Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

• "Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance." ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

• "So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things." ~ Johannes Kepler, Somnium

• "The most violent element in society is ignorance." ~ Emma Goldman

• "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." ~Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil

• "Whoever works without knowledge works uselessly." ~ Anonymous

• "Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, research is the means of all learning, and ignorance is the end." ~ Michel de Montaigne

• "It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

• "You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do." ~Norman Juster

• "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." ~Mark Twain

• "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance." ~A. Bronson Alcott

• "Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak." ~Author Unknown

• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ~Albert Einstein

• "We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?" ~Author Unknown

• “Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the cast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” ~ St. Augustine

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